Clay in the Hands

Yesterday, I alluded to a big announcement coming today.  Well . . . its epic, at least for our little community.  But before I jump right into that, let me give you a little history that has brought us to this point.

In 15 days I will have been the pastor of 1st B in Littlefield for 2 years.  It doesn’t seem possible that it has been that long.

At any rate, since coming to Littlefield, I have tried to become connected to the community and I feel that I have a fairly good understanding of the city.  But from day one I have sensed a desperation and an attitude of defeat.  It’s almost like, in many ways, our people have given in to the fact that the world is just a bad place and there is not much we can do about it.

That has been a burden on my heart from day one.  In fact, that is one of the reasons I have been preaching to our 1st B family that we have got to BE the church in our town.  Our community needs the church to truly BE the church.

To add to this cloud, we have experienced some tragic losses this year, two of which have been teenagers in our school system.

So a couple of weeks ago, our staff got together and began to pray and dream.  We thought about different things we could do to reach into our community.  And we decided on an event.

But not just any event.  We could bring in some local band and try and find a speaker that could come and do some kind of a revival.  And that would be all well and good.  But we wanted something different – something our community has not seen before.

So here it is . . . drum roll please!

On May 9 (yes, here in about 3 weeks – that is why we need your help so desperately), we are bringing in one of the premier Christian comics in America – Bob Smiley – and its free to the public!

We are debating between 2 different venues, but we will open the doors at 5:45, serve hot dogs and nachos, and then we are working with a Christian band that will take the stage at 6.  (More details on that as soon as we have them).  Then  Soldiers of God, a very energetic Christian band will take the stage at 6:45.  Bob will take the stage at 7:30.

I am excited about how God has put this together!  I am looking forward to what God is going to do.

And I need your help.  Help us pack this event out.  I need you to talk this up and share it on your Facebook.  Tweet it.  Text it.  Email it.  Whatever you can do to help us get our community to this event.

And oh, did I mention its free?!

I am blessed to have a lot of followers to this site.  Can I count on you to help?

Let’s make this awesome!